Strange Matter: Halloween 2009 on the Suncoast… Are you a demon and a nothing?
November 4th, 2009 by Andrew Konietzky in Food and Drink, Music, Nightlife, Sarasota-Manatee
The title was a question a drunken costumed girl asked us on the sidewalk. Not sure what she wanted between the slurs and stumbles. The folks of Sarasota often live in the sunlit world of what we believe to be reality. But there is unseen by most, a place just as real, but not as brightly lit… the Sarasota Halloween festivities.
The goblins and things that go bump are snug in there bone strewn nests as Halloween 2009 comes to an end in Sarasota. Saturday night I was witness to many creatures ranging from pimps to vampires, and everything between the the veil of our world and the next. The evening started with me cleaning off my girlfriend’s rental car. It was hit by tricksters the night before and was covered with blue glitter and toilet paper. She suited up as a stunning Demon Lover and myself as Doctor Who, or as many folks thought, Lex Luther. Damn non-BBC-watching fools. We started things off with a glass of absinthe and then a visit to the Dark Side to see some folks. After a brief visit we jumped our brooms and flew off to the festivities down at the Gator Club block party. Which apparently our own Cliff Roles was taking snaps of. How did we miss him? He is everywhere? After a couple of drinks, some great costumes and some great local tunes we headed to back to our undead transport.
We were then whisked off to Ceviche on a recommendation by my roommate Chris, with hints of it being the party of the evening. It was rather like an empty graveyard for the first two hours of the party, then somewhat began to fill with fresh bodies. The drinks were great and the costumes were very impressive. Most of the time.
Some folks just have no imagination, skill, or love in putting together a great costume for the night. We crawled back for a final visit to Dark Side comics for a game of Werewolf, and a final visit with good friends. One last sticky dose of undead goodness splatters onto the sidewalk in these creepy photos from the land of Cleve. Now I just need to get a mop and bucket to clean up the viscera.
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